Curriculum varies widely from school district to school district and state to state. These project ideas will help teachers envision ways that a focused set of web 2.0 tools can help students build skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening as they master concepts and skills across the curriculum.

Grade 5

Tools: All previous tools, now done by individual students/partners. Possibly embed results in a class wiki as a single collection point for sharing and linking to all projects from a central place.

Mapskip: Class or student-created maps of US history: annotated tales of westward expansion, colonial times, Revolutionary War sites etc. Landform maps of the state, U.S., or world with markers (“stories”) about each landform and images included.

Bookemon: Diary of a pioneer, a colonist, a space explorer. Student-made science notebooks on magnetism, light, electricity or other science topics, including written explanations of digital pictures and hands-on experiments. A Field Guide to the Plants and Trees in your schoolyard (digital pictures and Including basic bibliography of sources). An illustrated scientist’s journal of an investigation following scientific method.

Voicethread: Narrated explanations of the science concept illustrated in digital pictures uploaded from class science experiments. Student-created digital drawings of cells, plant parts, etc., narrated and explained: A Guided Tour of A Cell (Including basic bibliography of sources). An Audio Field Guide to the Plants and Trees in your school yard (digital pictures). Listening to comments from others.